Yes: Yessongs If You Can Remember The Names Of These Albums From Just The Album Art, We're Going To Be Seriously Flabbergasted. ELO-Discovery, anything by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, or Megadeth, Huey Lewis & the News-Sports (since Born To Run made the list), Police-pick an album cover, KISS-many to choose from, RATT-Out Of The Cellar, INXS-Kick, Duran Duran-Rio, Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik, David Lee Roth-Skyscraper, Scorpions-pick an album cover, Quiet Riot-Metal Health, and a couple hundred others that I can’t think of at the moment. I grew up shopping in the vinyl era, and there were so many great covers then. – Highway to Hell by AC/DC. Definitely Stand Up with the woodcut popup gatefold. Nazareth: Hair of The Dog – well done! Black Rose – Thin Lizzy However; In the end, such Lists are Tough choices, Luckilly! George Harrison – Wonderwall Thread Status: ... Born today, and was just sitting here admiring the cover art - as well as the music - and started thinking about other album covers that don't mention the band or the album. Are they so great? As art and not the music inside, Beatles White Album and AC DC’s Back In Black can go and put these two in. I totally Agree with the one that Requested “Crime Of The Century” rather than “Breakfast In America” of Supertramp’s Covers. Omission faux pas in my eyes to this list. Like a proto XXL “Freshman Class”, the three alternate covers of A Tribe Call Quest’s classic third album Midnight Marauders featured a collage of 71 hip-hop personalities from Afrika Bambaataa to the Beastie Boys, like the Sgt Pepper of hip-hop. Graphic designer and art director Jean-Paul Goude met his match, and his muse, with Grace Jones. I don’t think half of these deserve to be on this list. If you had actually lived through the 60s you would know what it meant to the world of music. and “Don’t Crust that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers”? Jefferson Airplane’s Long John Silver hails from the golden age of elaborate album covers. As always, his daughter Nina’s name was hidden a few times in the artwork. This style of art would be associated with psychedelic music from here on out, though Crumb was a bit anti-hippie himself. The Argus cover stuck with me through all these years. Time to judge a book by its cover! PiL’s follow-up to their famous Metal Box cover was even more effective, showing non-performing bandmember Jeanette Lee with a rose in her teeth, a weapon in her hand, and a murderous look in her eyes. Click next for the answer. for me. We assume the mess on the backside happened after someone pressed “start.”. Vagabonds of the Western World – Thin Lizzy These album covers are really great, trust … Someone really did a number on these famous album covers. I think it would be better to have 1 cover per artist on the list because there are so many great ones. The Rolling Stones probably couldn’t beat the Beatles for a psychedelic album in 1967, but they arguably had the better cover, the first 3D sleeve in rock. QUIZ: Match the 80s artist to their album cover. Can think of twenty more pieces of art that deserve to be here. Next time shoot for 250 and you,d still better prepare for some flack. In fact, a series of ‘Decade’ themed quizzes was proposed. You suppose she was naked. Robert Fripp saw this dramatic painting after In the Court of the Crimson King was completed and knew it perfectly suited the music, with the crazed cover figure as the 21st century schizoid man. The baby in question, Spencer Elden, even recreated the photo 25 years later. Lotus – Santana Pink Floyd – “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” One of the psych era’s great hallucinations, the cover for Moby Grape’s 1968 double-album Wow showed an otherworldly landscape with the world’s largest bunch of grapes. Kate Bush – The Dreaming (with a kiss, I’d pass they key) Kate Bush – Lionheart Since Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew sounded like no other previous jazz albums, it couldn’t look like one either. Nick Haeffner – The Great Indoors I’m talking about the image chosen for Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell album. Absolutely right! I thought the first Bad Company had a very iconic look to it…the large logo against the stark black background. RCA wasted no time in cleaning up Elvis, who’d look completely respectable on all future albums. I was hoping to see the Jackson 5 Skywriter LP. 89,842 PLAYS. The White Album??? Or how about Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division? Anyone who went to plays or read the New York Times in the 70s will recognize the work of line-drawing caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, who did his magic on Aerosmith’s members here. It won NME’s award for best album artwork in 1969. Christ: The Album (1982) 109: 109. A good cover became a great one the moment when a bored Johnny Ramone decided to give the photographer the finger. Maybe even Synchronicity or Zenyette Mondetta. Metallica’s trademark mix of shock value and social commentary had few better expressions than this image of a modern take on Lady Justice for their 1988 album …And Justice For All. Are not they important? Spark’s intuitive, easy to use functions mean you spend less time trying to figure out how to use the program and more time creating the perfect album cover. Obviously, killary can count on one more fool’s vote for the “of the government, by the government, for the government” system that has and will forever more forget the wants and needs of “it’s” own citizens. The album cover quiz posted a few weeks ago seemed to be enjoyed by many. Check this out – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLNeSbtVN0, you neglected the all time best album cover ever (at least for college age males such as myself in the early 70’s): Forgoing any blinged-out tropes, the former Wu-Tang member put a doctored version of his welfare ID card on the front cover of his solo debut, as both a reminder of where he came from and to destigmatize being on public assistance. Despite its daring appearance, if you looked closely, the whipped-cream clad model was actually wearing a wedding dress. The mysterious image on 1989’s cover was an easy one for her fans to copy, and they did. The sublime strangeness of this David Bowie photo tells you everything you need to know about the creative madness of his Berlin period. 2 great Hipgnosis-designed covers. Some good ones did get missed as pointed out in here. Also, try to get images from original LP and not the CD. I would have liked to see some European covers, for instance: Pepper’s changed album covers forever, and kept many of us occupied for weeks trying to identify everybody at the ceremony. VAN HALEN “VAN HALEN” OR 1984 SHOULD HAVE SURELY MADE THE LIST. Great graphics on that one. Yardbirds – “Roger The Engineer” The Go-Go’s sense of playful subversion extended to their sendup of glamorous cover photos on their hit debut, Beauty & The Beat. Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies. To commemorate this and to celebrate album art in general here’s a picture quiz that features some other album covers from the last fifty years. Savoy Brown,Outside Looking in.. My opinion the Best Cover art ever, Be Bop Deluxe “Axe Victim ” and “Sunburst Finish” Follow. Blind Faith, Cheap Thrills- Big Brother, The Who sings My Generation, Love It To Death-Alice Cooper, Everybody’s In Showbiz-The Kinks, The Tubes (especially the back cover-yowza), The Slits, New York Dolls, MC5- Live at The Grande Ballroom, Captain Beefheart- Clear Spot, Moby Grape- Apple Pie, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks- Where’s The Money, Ohio Players-Honey, etc, etc. If Horses wasn’t enough to make Patti Smith an instant icon of bohemian cool, the Robert Mapplethorpe photo certainly was. No mention by anyone of Family! ELOs “Out of the Blue” Where is Quicksilver Happy Tails ? He fittingly put his most beautiful cover on Yes’ most creative album, an icy winterscape that illuminates the album’s war-and-peace theme. Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear While the album made an instant star out of Springsteen, the cover did the same for E Street Band’s sax man Clarence Clemons. This countdown of great album covers – some iconic, others overlooked – has it all: indelible images, perfect portraits, nightmares, and hallucinations. Meanwhile, his debut allowed him to look like the crazed hillbilly everyone’s parents feared he was. Animal Notes by Crack the Sky, 2nd Street by Back Street Crawler, Warrior on the Edge of Time by Hawkwind? Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak Oh, I forgot to note that all covers done by Neon Park for all Little Feat albums. I would certainly add The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper with album artwork by Norman Rockwell. The one for Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player was just right, drawing from his soon-to-be-legendary love of movies. This Reagan-era concept album makes its visual point by using a photo of Beatles records being burned that followed John Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” remarks. Allan Brother’s – Eat A Peach ELP – Tarkus. – Spirits in the Material World by The Police born to run? The Band’s brown album (The Band) is a break with the period’s psychedelic imagery and music. Black Flag’s trailblazing punk-metal wouldn’t have been the same without Pettibon’s grisly comic images, though in this case, not quite as grisly as the album itself. Nazareth,,,any of them but especially No Mean City ! As in any list it is a daunting task because it’s all subjective. Covers that don’t belong even if it were the 1000 greatest ones. The answer was obvious: recreate record covers only using items lying around the house. GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 (2001) [Compilation] That's just a sticker on the picture saying "Madonna". JMO. Jimi Hendrix EXP -Axis Bold As Love While some of Finster’s work had a darker streak, for this album he appropriately chose sunshine and wonderment. You are not being serious here…. Looking In- Savoy Brown. Lists like this are always subjective! Live Adventures by Kooper and Bloomfield didn’t make the top 10? For the artwork AND the music. Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous Ultra-cool Elvis (in his shiny gold Nudie suit) gets multiplied in one of the most enduring early 60s images and greatest album covers. or Reggae artists: Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out Rush’s greatest album covers expressed both their grand concepts and their cerebral sense of humor. Sticky Fingers and Banana covers are among the most recognizable. Björk – Homogenic Tubular Bells is one of the best ever; much better than the Top 100! Community Member. Speaking of censorship, what about the uproar over Blind Faith’s album? and Finally , the Mona Lisa of Rock and Roll… Pavlov’s Dog-Pampered Menial. The reason? Howard Finster’s uniquely Southern folk art was a perfect match for Talking Heads’ back-to-roots album (and for R.E.M.’s Reckoning around the same time). Current 93 Crooked … Carly Simon – Really, all of them, but Playing Possum is a classic! This pack is easy at first, with well-known albums such as Born in the USA and Rainbow. no nektar. Sorry. My favorite album cover is Blow By Blow from Jeff Beck! "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". Little known fact about the London Calling album cover-the date of the bass smash photo (9/21/79) is incorrect. Or Cindy Lauper’s “Shes So Unusual”? Burial – Untrue Kiss: Destroyer Jethro Tull – Stand Up – Golden Earring – Moontan, and one of an early Klaus Doldinger “Passport” Cover! Seriously why was this omitted? OMG – Where are the judges? Year: 2015. Rick Griffin artwork. An iconic cover – and album …. Bridge of Sighs – Robin Trower Linton Kwesi Johnson – Bass Culture ELO – Time John Cale – Walking on Locusts The image of a baby grasping at a dollar bill became one of grunge’s most enduring symbols, capturing the attitude of Nevermind and the era. The cover depicts one of the greatest rock guitarists in his prime! Bad Company – Straight Shooter The designer also wrote one of the album’s most vivid lyrics on “Tales of Brave Ulysses.”. I do not know where you culled the images for this article, but whoever was responsible is clearly a dunderhead. Jeff Beck – Blow By Blow There were some Nazereth , Molly Hatchet Albums that had real great Art. And what about Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? Ah, the days when bands had the money to carry out their wildest ideas. Another Hipgnosis job, the cover for XTC’s Go 2 boasts a dense block of typed copy that taunts and messes with the album buyer’s head. (So has the Interpretation Of Classical Works.). However, I appreciated Unknown Pleasures (JD) is ‘difficult audibly, as covers go it must slightly trump Power, Corruption and Lies? Guess The Album Cover. Raise your hand if you also thought the cat was a head of lettuce. C’mon Iron Maiden: Killers and KISS: Rock and Roll Over are the greatest cover arts of all time! Not a single Cannibal Corpse cover. why on earth is Ian Dury & The Blockheads ‘Do It Yourself’ not on that list and covers like Madness and Elvis Costello are? Here they’re on the 10th floor of a hotel standing at the precipice, and only one of the guys seems concerned about it. Be-Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish Grateful Dead – Blues for Allah ? The minimalism of The Velvet Underground & Nico peel-away banana cover became an influence on punk visual style many years later and remains one of the greatest album covers. "Deja Entendu". Gentle Giant – In A Glass House, Great album covers but would have to add I agree with many of these, I certainly agree with the recommendation of Carole King’s Tapestry. There were nearly as many copies of Alice Cooper’s School’s Out in 1970s high schools as there were actual school desks. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Henry Please, Nov 12, 2013. Goude’s visual re-imagining of the androgynous singer led to some of the best album covers in music history, from Nightclubbing to Slave to the Rhythm and the arabesque grandeur of Island Life. Adam created some of the most iconic visuals in musical history. Deep Purple – Machine Head The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour. The Pixies’ debut cover is sexy, sinister, and full of secret meanings, starting with a vintage-looking softcore photo that was staged for the cover shoot. Agreed! Most of these album covers ain`t that great. This shimmering image is undeniably beautiful, yet you never know just what it means…just like their music. We’re referring to the original UK “kite” cover that introduced the strangeness and sensuality that Bush was all about. Many Americans wondered what Lucille Ball was doing there but it was actually French actress Delphine Seyrig. Santana – debut (lion) Album covers that give me good feelings besides quite a few in the presented list: Allman Brothers Band -Brothers ans Sisters;Emerson Lake And Palmer first album; Fairport Convention- What we did on our holidays;Gram Parsons-GP;J.J.Cale-Naturally;Jefferson Airplane-Volunteers;The Kinks-Percy ,and Lola versus Powerman & Money go round; The Mamas & The Papas-Deliver;Neil Young-Everybody knows this is Nowhere; The Lovin’ Spoonful -Best of the Lovin’ Spoonful (with the cartoon immages);Dylan -Blonde on Blonde; Doug Sahm-Doug Sahm and Band. Of course, it got an extra dimension by playing with Love’s own image at the time. The cover image of bassist Paul Simonon smashing his instrument practically screams rock’n’roll, just like the music inside. Not a terrible list, but I’d have thought Weather Report – Heavy Weather, would have somehow made that list. Some of Elton’s greatest album covers were a bit splashy, others a little somber. Like all goth-influenced artists, Chelsea Wolfe has a strong sense of the dramatic. Thanks to Chrysostome for this suggestion. ?………………….maybe dark side of the moon? must’ve missed the Van Halen 1984 album cover. …and we must not forget Captain Beyond’s “Sufficiently Breathless”, Genesis “Live”, Charlie Daniels Band “Fire on the Mountain”, Yes “Relayer”, all the crazy Blue Oyster Cult covers, Joe Walsh’s “The Smoker you Drink, the Player you Get”…just the title alone …Jesus, come on. yuk. Peter Blake’s pop-art assemblage on Sgt. It started with Double J … Not one Moody Blues album cover….unfrickinbelievable!!! – Pretty much anything created by Hipgnosis, including 10cc Deceptive Bends Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties (how the hell did you miss this ?) You should know better to dare put together a list like this and call it Greatest….no one is ever happy or appreciates the work put into it. No Molly Hatchet covers? The Byrds- Sweetheart of the Rodeo. See? Magicians birthday was there.. Also born to run, top 10? Discover the worst album covers of all time. Children Of the Future (Steve Miller Band), Blues For Allah (The Grateful Dead), In Search Of the Lost Chord (The Moody Blues), Just For Love (Quicksilver Messenger Service), Outside Inside (Blue Cheer), Escape (Journey), Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield), Firefall (S/T), The Royal Scam (Steely Dan), Pink Moon (Nick Drake), Dire Straits (S/T), In Rock (Deep Purple), Mellow Yellow (Donovan), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd), Misfits (The Kinks), Santana (S/T) and there’s so many more that I could list too. Santana – First two albums It's on the tip of your tongue, isn't it? 1. Seriously???? Okay, so it was a little graphic and provocative, but as the single most controversial thing The Beatles ever did (and the most expensive for an original), the cover of Yesterday and Today surely earns a place on a list of the greatest album covers. The James Gang…a Myriad of others…The Moody Blues alone should have at least 2 of their awesome art on this display….. Although…you have captured many…. BTO – Not Fragile No GENESIS – total shame! And how many other bands numbered their albums before the white album? ?……..or …….exile on main street,,,,,,or maybe…..atom hearth mother? Those who have chosen the list looked at books, as the themselves state. One of the many imaginative trips from the late 60s, this assemblage – by the band’s drummer – represents various personal dreams of the band members. Not so with John Coltrane’s Blue Train, whose somber photo and mood lighting marked it as a work to take seriously. It’s hard to choose ONLY 100! POST. Suzanne Vega – Days of Open Hand This image appears in the gallery: QUIZ: Guess The Artwork. Nico – The Marble Index The Doors ” Full Circle ” (great cover, crappy album. Troublegum Paul McCartney Press to Play. Where is Fleetwood Mac’s Mystery to Me cover??? The ubiquitous Hipgnosis team outdid itself with this ultra-clever 10cc sleeve, which is not only inspired by one of the songs (the phone sex-themed “Don’t Hang Up”) but is full of hidden gags, with the same people turning up in each of the four main photos. No DSOTM? 20 images. Goat’s Head Soup – The Rolling Stones, cd packaging is a different size as well. There are plenty of albums that should of been listed and quite a few above that shouldn’t. Genesis-Nursery Cryme. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors. Two of the most innovative album covers of all time. The Who – Quadrophenia The Smiths – The Smiths, That’s not the original Ramones cover… -_-, Brothers In Arms Dire Straits best cover Any of the First 3 Waterboys album covers. Jeff Bridges’ got nothing on the original “The Dude,” the effortlessly cool and quixotic character that appears on Quincy Jones’ genre-blending solo debut. Confused by t rex’s the slider over electric warrior which is clearly the superior cover. Great album, great cover. E Pluribus Funk (a da moeda): Grand Funk Railroad…, Good selection. Album covers without any text (name of the band or the album). how about moby grape’s wow! You’d think this list was made in the 1950s. Why in the world did Humble Pie get a bunch of policemen to form a human pyramid? absolutely amazed that After The Goldrush isn’t on here. Luxurious Snake skin cover with a fabulous interior, lush with band portrait,Lyrics and One Billion Dollar Bill.. Jackson Browne-Late for the Sky. Also Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies snakeskin wallet cover or the Schools Out School desk cover one of these should be there. Greatest Hits is the first compilation album and the third video album by blink-182, comprising the band's greatest hits, released October 31, 2005. Deep Purple: Machine Head Cabaret Voltaire – Microphones The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses UFO – “Phenomenon” Also with no picture. School ‘s Out I was doing this thing at home of putting up framed album covers. Where are any of those incredible Yes covers like Yessongs? Agree that there are many Grateful Dead album covers that are better than those in the list. Most of Pink Floyd’s covers would be in the running for a list of the greatest album covers, but this burst of Hipgnosis imagination featuring four versions of the same photo (except that the band rotates one position in each) matched their sense of surrealism. Explore their music with more than just one ear and you’ll discover that they were not only unique and groundbreaking, they WERE music for a period of time. even better than cream’s disraeli gears which is almost an eyesore is their wheels of fire cover, same artist, but way less of a dogs breakfast, cleaner and classy and silver, a refined version without the cliche dayglow. Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd. One of the best covers ever! It’s an amazing cover. Shine (1998) 292. It also made it essential to own the original, fold-out vinyl. But, I would rank that, Sgt Pepper’s and Revolver over the White Album both in terms of the quality and impression of the Album covers and the significance of the albums in the history of popular music as well as with their musical content. Eno – Here come the warm jets. It has really good music also. Bob Marley – Natty Dread Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes, Any early Genesis cover should be there, especially “Trick Of The Tail” or “Selling England By The Pound”. Wishbone Ash “Argus “, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown “I bring you to burn …”. The British cover of the Bonzo Dog Band with King Kong, and their other early albums. A plain white cover with the band name… SOOO artistic! Everything in the cover, from the sepia tone photo, to the clothes to the typography was the antithesis of the sixties aesthetic and announced a new music rooted in the past. See if you can get 10/10 and let us know your score. I have trouble in doing the top 500, imagine top 100… Number 21 or 22. and the famous 1st US edition of Faces 1st LP, named by mistake Small Faces on the cover .. What about Steppenwolf “Monsters”? arc of a diver? Example: ANYTHING by either Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis or Roger Dean as an album cover deserves consideration. I would love to laugh in their faces. Too many dumb (actually sad) choices to call out. Most fucking annoying. Band – Eat a Peach Though Steely Dan was long associated with Los Angeles, the cover for Pretzel Logic (actually shot at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street) looks, feels, and tastes like New York. The cover of Come Fly With Me caught both Sinatra’s natural cool and the allure of the jet-set era. Who made this list obviously never saw a Uriah jeep album cover smh, Missing from list: Misplaced Childhood? Playing Possum – Carly Simon It should, however, have been pictured with the “Belly-Belt”. Even years later it’s haunting yet sexy and compels you to stare at it! 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